Russia abandons Mir after NASA pressure

1999-06-09T00:00:00

The Russian Space Agency says it will have to decommission the Mir space station in February 2000 and take it out of orbit due to the "need to contribute to the International Space Station [ISS] and the failure of efforts to find alternative private funding".

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